Lectures on the Sūtra of the Collection of the Father and Son (Pitāputrasamāgamanasūtra) (169)

Since the realms of the five desires and six sense objects are as unreal as a dream, we should apply our minds to cultivating the Path. However much effort we expend on the six sense objects, it is futile and of no benefit; it merely serves to satisfy the desires of a deluded mind. In essence, such desires are unnecessary, and because of them, we do many meaningless things and create much evil karma. If we did not have those worldly desires, we would be a normal person, an awakened person, a person of tranquility (praśama), a person without karmic obstructions and without afflictions.